Friday, September 26, 2008

Some weeks ago my Spanish friend Morgana and other great girls that run a group food site called Blogolosas, invited me for their first blog event: ProBocación(a funny play on words in spanish, meaning a provocation).

I though the idea was just great! Most blog events start with the same recipe (Daring Bakers, TWD, etc), other start with a theme (SHF, etc). This one starts with an image! Isn't that cool? We could do whatever we wanted based on that image.

For the pannacotta: heat the cream, milk and sugar until boiling point. Add the gelatin sheets that have been previosly soaked in cold water and well drained (you can also use powder gelatine: 1 tsp=1 sheet). Add the liqueur and food coloring and stir well.

For the ganache: Heat the cream and add to the chocolate. Leave to rest for 1-2 minutes and stir with a spoon until a thick and shiny cream forms.

For the whipped cream: Whip very cold cream until soft peaks, add the sugar and keep whipping until medium peaks. Add chocolate shavings.

To assemble: In long tube glasses put a few tablespoons of pannacotta and take to the fridge until it hardens, leaving the glass tipped, I've used a butter block to support it and the glass bottom was stuck on the fridge racks. When it's set, add a layer of ganache and wiggle the glass arround allowing the ganache to spread, covering all the pannacotta layer. Let harnen a bit and do the second third of pannacotta. Keep doing this until you have 3 layers of each (you might need to heat the ganache in the microwave for the last layer). Top with the whipped cream, extra chocolate shavings and a sprig of fresh mint.

This was a lot of fun to make and a really good pacience exercice! For me, that have little patience sometimes, you can imagine that waiting for all those layers to set was not easy. But oh, so worth it! I think it came out quite cute and with mint and chocolate, do I need to tell you it was delicious as well? Can't wait to see what's the next image we're going to be provoked with! Check the other creations here!

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LOL I sometimes have a hard time figuring out a name for a recipe with so many ingredients...but rarely do I have it with a dessert this good! Seriously, let's just call it AWESOME, that's a good enough name ;).